Diabetes rates may show first signs of slowing

September 23, 2014 8:06 PM

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The nation's diabetes epidemic may show the first signs of slowing, researchers from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say.

The numbers remain big and are still rising: 8.3% of adults had been diagnosed with diabetes as of 2012. But the rates at which new cases are accumulating and overall counts are climbing have slowed in recent years, says a report published Tuesday in the medical journal JAMA.